Photographer: Mauro Bottaro

Signing ceremony of an agreement for an investment in the Balticconnector, the first gas pipeline connecting Finland and Estonia

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC, received Taavi Rõivas, Estonian Prime Minister, and Juha Sipilä, Finnish Prime Minister, for the signing ceremony of an agreement for a 187 million euros investment in the Balticconnector, the first gas pipeline connecting Finland and Estonia. This gas interconnector would end the energy isolation of Finland which was largely dependent on a single supplier. When the gas would start flowing by 2020, this project would unite the Eastern Baltic Sea region with the rest of the EU energy market.